None but the productive can be strong; and none but the strong can be free.

Ignorance is a form of environmental pollution.

In themiddle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

Mistakes are to Life what shadows are to Light.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Thereis all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

Wordsare, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

The warexisting between the senses and reason.

If necessityis the mother of invention, conflict is its father.

WheneverI hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

One cannot be precise and still be pure.